Pushed Over the Edge: Using Multi-scale Approaches to Understand and Forecast Dryland Responses to Climate Extremes
Sasha Reed1, William Kolby Smith2, Andrew Feldman3, Raymond F Kokaly4, Natasha MacBean5, David JP Moore2, Lixin Wang6, Marcy E Litvak7, Russell Scott8, Wen Zhang2 and Dennis S Ojima9, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, United States, (2)University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (4)U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States, (5)Western University, Department of Geography & Environment and Department of Biology, London, Canada, (6)Indiana University Indianapolis, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indianapolis, United States, (7)University of New Mexico, Department of Biology, Albuquerque, United States, (8)USDA-ARS, Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, United States, (9)Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States